and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on … indicates that the main underlying channel is a shock on families' wealth …

natural disasters affect bilateral trade, and that this effect is conditioned by geographical variables such as distance to … financial centers or area. This allows us to use interactions between geography and the incidence of disasters at the bilateral …' performances as well as for the direct effect of disasters. We find that the elasticity of income with respect to openness is about …

disaster. The paper concludes by reflecting on what we know about whether policies to confront natural disasters should be …This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from … theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one …

effect of disasters on growth. The worst 5% disaster years come with a growth damage of at least 0.45 percentage points. That … average effect is driven mainly by very large earthquakes and some meteorological disasters. Poor countries are more strongly …Growth theory predicts that natural disasters should, on impact, lower GDP per capita. However, the empirical …

In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body … important determinant of trust - the frequency of natural disasters. Frequent naturally occurring events such as storms require … (and provide opportunity for) societies to work closely together to meet their challenges. While natural disasters can have …